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MeetFactory, o. p. s.
Ke Sklárně 3213/15
150 00 Praha 5

GPS:
50.053653
14.408441

Opening hours:
13:00 do 20:00 + based on evening program

Batu Bozoglu

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Batu Bozoglu (b. 1983, Turkey) is an artist focusing on interactive and participatory artworks within the field of performance art. Bozoglu's projects focus on the human psyche's response to national, historical war traumas. Drawing inspiration from archives, diaries, and correspondences, these works present live platforms where trauma can be revisited, reevaluated, and shared in novel ways. Most of his projects offer concrete systems of communication and expression layered on the artist's everyday life, through which willing participants can interact, exploit, disrupt, and claim as their own. 
 
His work is performed and exhibited in shows in and around Turkey, the USA, Italy, and Taiwan. Bozoglu is a member of the Performistanbul and lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.
 
At MeetFactory residency he continues in his research on civilian trauma during the world wars, he is  investigating the Terezin Ghetto: a site of Nazi Genocide. Arts and crafts such as theatre, literature, games and concerts played a large role in the struggle for morale in this ghetto, thanks to the large number of artists interred here, coupled with the children present in the camp. Inspired by one of these games, he is now in the process creating a new board game that would try to emulate, and in doing so perhaps translate part of this experience in the form of a collective performance. You can find more within Prague Museum Night on 15 June. The event is free. 
EDUCATION 
 
Bozoglu holds a BFA in Painting from Marmara FFA and an MA in VCD from Sabanci FASS with his thesis on interactivity and participation in art. He received his practice-based PhD from Marmara IFA in Painting with his thesis titled Dada and the Rise of the New Modernity: Aesthetics of Destruction investigating parallels between Dadaist methods of production and the destruction brought by industrial warfare in the Western Front of the Great War.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
 
2023"In the Fragility of Acceptance: Data and Ghosts" in Kasa Gallery, Istanbul (TR)
2020"Project: Survive" in Stay Live at Home, online, Performistanbul 
2019"Superimposed" in Elgiz Museum, Istanbul (TR)
2018"Dadamobile" in public space, Boston Farmer's Market (US)
2018"Needed: You" at PCSAA, Istanbul (TR)
2017"Venice Performance Art Week 2017" at Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT)
Date of residency: 04.05.2024 – 30.06.2024